Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
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about to visit Ireland, his birthplace
Young Cyrus w. Field Melted 100000 one
! day on the slump in Manhattan Elevated
stock.
Adult Gen Drum is slowly recovering
from his recent severe illness and is again at
his desk
Edward Everett Hale's congregation is
! about to build him a new church of imposing
proportions.
Gen. Spinner is in robust health and is hav-
ing q good time with his friends at Pablo
| Beach, Fla.
Stewart, of Georgia, and Mckinney, of
New Hampshire, are the only two ministers
in the Fiftieth congress.
Governor Hill, of New York, plays with
all the little children near the executive man
sion in Albany every day.
Millionaire Cogswell has invested 100000
in a granite tomb for himself, to be erected
in San Francisco cemetery.
The three sons of Hiram Powers, the ia
nous American sculptor. live in three separ-
ate villas just outside of Florence.
The Duke of Sparta, Crown Prince of
Greece is said to lie greatly in love with one
of his cousins, a daughter of the Prince of
Wales
George Francis Train now permits adults
to approach and address him. For some time
he has only allowed little children to come
near him.
The Rev. C. Cook, of Jessup aged CT,
preacher and drummer, was married in Sioux
City to Mrs Curtis, widow of As, after q
courtshp of one hour
J. L. NJ. Curry, minister to Spain, will
spend his holiday at his home in Richmond
Va. and will take an active part in starting
the building of a new Baptist church
The Rev. Erastus Blalseslee, of New
Haven, Conn, has not yet decided whether
be will accept the call rendered him to the
presidency of the Atlanta university.
Gen. Imboden, of Confederate cavalry
fame, recently stated in letter that if Vir-
ginia's mineral wealth had been as fully de-
veoped in 1sG0 as now there would have
been no war.
Rowland Leveson Gowen, a nephew of the
Marquis of Stafford, is doing the Pacific
coast. He arrived at San Francisco recently
from Hong Kong, after visit including India,
Japan and China.
Ex-Governor Rufus Bullock, of Georgia,
says the southern people are just discover
ing what the west learned quarter of
century ago, that railroads must be the pi-
oneers of development.
Gen Brandreth, commissary general of
subsistence on Governor Hills staff, of New
York, is only 2s years of age. He is a son
of the famous pill manufacturer and has
beautiful place at Sing Sing.
Ira d. Sankey has given the land on which
the new building of the First Methodist
church at New Castle, Pa, will stand Mr..
Sankey attended the church in his younger
days and was superintendent Of its Sunday
school for several years.
Justice Gray, of the United States supreme
court, is about to build q new house in Wash
ing on and as the gossips can't for the life of
them understand what he'll do with
new house without wife to manage it, they
are certain he is going to marry.
James Bowler. of Chicago. lieutenant of
police is making his first visit to Saratoga
He was in command of the policemen at the
Newmarket riot on May 4, 1856. One of the
policemen fell dead into Bowler's arms after
the explosion of the fatal bomb
Mai Gen Siemens, who died on the LIST of
july in Berlin had introduced many impor-
tant improvements into the materiel of the
German artillery 1t was manly owing to
his influence that krupp guns in preference
to the English were adopted in the German
navy.
The Rev Phillips Brooks who is preach
ing in and about London during his vacation
abroad fairly takes the breath of drouing
English churchGoers by his rapid delivery.
The queen has commander the distin-
guished American divine to appear before her
at Windsor
Sergt Mason, who gained notoriety for
having shot at Guiteau during his trial for
the murder of President Garfield has become
prosperous and very quiet farmer in Orange
county, Va He, with Betty and several
babies, is reported to be perfectly comforta-
bic in all respects.
Charles Rau, one of the curators of the
Smithsonian institution, who recently died in
Washington, was q curious character. He
had no relatives in this country and leaves
his fortune to nephew III Germany For
fifty years be lived the life of miser. He
slept and cooked in one room in the Smith
sonian building
Pope Leo XIII is about to found inter-
national college for literature, in which the
Italian poets and authors will he studied in
an especial manner His holiness announced
this in an audience granted to the students of
the Leonne institute, in honor of their recita-
tions of extracts from Greek and Latin poets
and from Dante.
Gilbert Ball is prominent colored polti-
clan of Philadelphia. He recently entered
restaurant at Atlantic City, kept by man
much blacker than Mr.. Ball Ball ordered
sirloin steak You can't get it here" said
the dusky proprietor; 1--WE serve only white
people" Mr. Ball left the place in a rage,
sought lawyer and will bring suit against
the proprietor.
William McDiarmid, who claims to be the
Coolest living printer and newspaper writer
in the United States" lives in Healdsburg,
Sonoma county, Cal. He was born in Edin-
burgh in 1872, was apprenticed to printing
firm when he was ii years old, came to this
country in 1886, worked on various papers
in the eastern cities until 1873, when he
went to California, where, until year ago,
he used to write for the press.
John Brown, Jr., son of the Harper's Ferry
raider is GA wears old and is enraqed in Crane